Can AI be superhuman? Flaws in top gaming bot cast doubt

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Building robust AI systems that always outperform people might be harder than thought, say researchers who studied Go-playing bots.

Talk of superhuman artificial intelligence (AI) is heating up. But research has revealed weaknesses in one of the most successful AI systems — a bot that plays the board game Go and can beat the world’s best human players — showing that such superiority can be fragile. The study raises questions about whether more general AI systems will suffer from vulnerabilities that could compromise their safety and reliability, and even their claim to be ‘superhuman’.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02218-7

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  1. Tseng, T., McLean, E., Pelrine, K., Wang, T. T. & Gleave, A. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.12843 (2024).

  2. Wang, T. T. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.00241 (2022).

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